How to use medication safely for heart disease patients? There are many medications used to treat heart disease, including those that lower blood lipids, anticoagulate, slow heart rate or lower blood pressure. Due to the different mechanisms of action, what should I pay attention to when using drugs? Huang Guibao of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Treatment Center of Guangdong Provincial Hospital 1, statins: This is one of the most classic and effective lipid-lowering drugs, which can lower the “bad cholesterol” in the body and help the liver to remove cholesterol more effectively and lower blood lipids. Coronary heart patients should take it regularly. The drug is a gastrointestinal stimulant, may cause gastric mucosal erosion, bleeding or ulcers, ulcer disease or bleeding risk should be used with caution or not; no heart disease, it is best not to eat. 3, warfarin: is a coumarin class oral anticoagulant, and aspirin is different, it inhibits vitamin K in the liver synthesis of coagulation factors, and then achieve the purpose of anticoagulation. The efficacy of this drug varies significantly among individuals and bleeds easily in overdose. It should be taken with great care and closely monitored for bleeding from the oral mucosa, nasal cavity and subcutaneous area. Regularly go to the hospital to draw blood, check the prothrombin time, and follow the doctor’s instructions to adjust the dosage. Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Cardiac Arrhythmia Treatment Center wishes you good health!